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• DESCRIPTION
  • How do I flush/unbuffer a filehandle? Why must I do this?
  • How do I change one line in a file/delete a line in a file/insert a line in the middle of a file/append to the beginning of a file?
  • How do I count the number of lines in a file?
  • How do I make a temporary file name?
  • How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files?
  • How can I make a filehandle local to a subroutine? How do I pass filehandles between subroutines? How do I make an array of filehandles?
  • How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()?
  • How can I use write() into a string?
  • How can I output my numbers with commas added?
  • How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
  • How come when I open the file read-write it wipes it out?
  • Why do I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use <*>?
  • Is there a leak/bug in glob()?
  • How can I open a file with a leading "E" or trailing blanks?
  • How can I reliably rename a file?
  • How can I lock a file?
  • What can't I just open(FH, ">file.lock")?
  • I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in the file. How can I do this?
  • How do I randomly update a binary file?
  • How do I get a file's timestamp in perl?
  • How do I set a file's timestamp in perl?
  • How do I print to more than one file at once?
  • How can I read in a file by paragraphs?
  • How can I read a single character from a file? from the keyboard?
  • How can I tell if there's a character waiting on a filehandle?
  • How do I open a file without blocking?
  • How do I create a file only if it doesn't exist?
  • How do I do a C in perl?
  • Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? What doesn't `C:\temp\foo.exe` work?
  • Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files?
  • Why does Perl let me delete read-only files? Why does C<-i> clobber protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl?
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